Mukhtar Nama

al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ‘Ubayd Allah al-Thaqafī (Arabic: المختار بن أبي عبيد الله الثقفي‎) (also spelled Mukhtar bin Abu Ubaid), 622-687 CE, was a controversial early Islamic revolutionary based in Kufa, Iraq who led an abortive rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphs in vengence for the death of Husayn ibn 'Ali at the Battle of Karbala and the expulsion of Ibn Al-Zubayr's governer in Kufa. Al-Mukhtar declared that Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, a descendent of 'Ali, was the rightful caliph and mahdi, the first use of this term for a real person in Islamic history. Al-Mukhtar was defeated by Umayyad commander Mus'ad Ibn Al-Zubayr and killed.

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